Although the caribou feeds the wolf, it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong…

The Wolf and the Caribou-myth and legend, according to the textbooks, a wolf is a hunter, an animal of prey. The Inuit, the people of the North, take a different view of it. They have their own idea of why the wolf was created. In the beginning, the Inuit creation story tell, there was a man and a woman, nothing else on the Earth walked or swam or flew. So the woman dug a big hole in the ground and she started fishing in it. She pulled out all of the animals. The last animal she pulled out was the caribou. The woman set the caribou free and ordered it to multiply. Soon the land was full of caribou, and the people lived well and they were happy. But the hunters only killed those caribou that were big and strong. Soon all that was left were the weak and the…